terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

This paper highlights the key characteristics of the quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and … in analytical work on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either only the quantitative … approach or only the qualitative approach in measuring and analyzing poverty is often likely to be less desirable than …

In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line (fixed at Rs. 396 per capita per month). Poorer … households have larger family size. Consequently, some 46.5 percent persons in the sample households are below poverty line. The …

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and … scales, for New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the OECD are examined. The implications of varying the poverty line are also …

This paper analyzes the relationship between polarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, the … proposed polarization measure is a function of the Sen poverty index, its extension due to Shorrocks (1995) and the normalized … poverty deficit index when the z income value represents the poverty line. In addition, these results are linked to the …